Why isn't this Skip Stage button teleporting me to the next Checkpoint? What's wrong?
I am making a Skip Stage for my Obby and I have a Skip Stage feature. I have a screen GUI --> TextButton --> Local Script.
I have named the checkpoints as for example, the first checkpoint will be called 1, the next checkpoint 2 and so on.
I do have a touch handler script in the Checkpoints folder which runs when a checkpoint is touched. It is as follows:
local Checkpoints = script.Parent
for i,v in pairs(Checkpoints:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") then
v.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
if player then
if player.leaderstats.Checkpoint.Value < tonumber(v.Name) then
player.leaderstats.Checkpoint.Value = tonumber(v.Name)
end
end
end
end)
end
end
The Local Script which is inside the text button (which should teleport me to the next Checkpoint) is causing out an error. It increases my leaderstats.Checkpoint's Value but just doesn't ****Teleport me****.
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local leaderstats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats"):FindFirstChild("Checkpoint")
local hasLimits = true
local Limits = 3
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
if hasLimits == true then
if Limits ~= 0 then
Limits = Limits - 1
script.Parent.Text = "Skip Stage ("..Limits..")"
leaderstats.Value = leaderstats.Value + 1
if player ~= nil then
if player.Character ~= nil then
if player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid").Health > 0 then
player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(leaderstats.Value).CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
end
end
end
end
else
if player ~= nil then
if player.Character ~= nil then
if player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid").Health > 0 then
player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(leaderstats.Value).CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
end
end
end
end
end)
And in the output is says "Players.Soban06.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.TextButton.LocalScript:15: attempt to index nil with 'CFrame'".
Please tell me how to fix this.
Thanks
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1 answer
There is a certain behaviour to :FindFirstChild(). Instead of tossing an error if the return result doesn’t show up, it will simply give us nil without interrupting the Lua thread. This we can use to our advantage if we simply rearrange some code.
By attempting to search for the next Stage through adding one number to the current Checkpoint, if the scenario of which there is no Stage past the Stage we’re at, we will get a nil result. We can simply create a conditional to only move to the next Stage and set the affiliated Checkpoint if this result does not occur. Otherwise, we simply wont do anything.
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Leaderstats = Player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local Checkpoint = Leaderstats:WaitForChild("Checkpoint")
local Checkpoints = workspace:WaitForChild("Checkpoints")
local LimitedUsage = true
local Limits = 3
local Button = script.Parent
Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
local TotalLimit = (LimitedUsage and Limits or 1)
if (TotalLimit <= 0) then Button.Text = "No Skips Left!" return end
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local SetCheckpoint = Checkpoints:FindFirstChild(tostring(Checkpoint.Value + 1))
if (SetCheckpoint) then
Character:MoveTo(SetCheckpoint.CFrame.p + Vector3.new(0,3,0))
Checkpoint.Value = tonumber(SetCheckpoint.Name)
if (LimitedUsage) then
Limits = (Limits - 1)
end
Button.Text = (LimitedUsage and "Skip Stage ("..Limits..')' or "Skip Stage")
end
end)